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The Nature of Things

Season 6 1965 - 1995

  • 1965-10-04T00:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 45m
  • 12h 45m (17 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Documentary
Hosted by the world-renowned geneticist and environmentalist, David Suzuki, every week presents stories that are driven by a scientific understanding of the world.

17 episodes

Season Premiere

1965-10-04T00:00:00Z

6x01 Animals and Man

Season Premiere

6x01 Animals and Man

  • 1965-10-04T00:00:00Z45m

A series studying the animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, and behavior.

1965-10-11T00:00:00Z

6x02 Animals on Land

6x02 Animals on Land

  • 1965-10-11T00:00:00Z45m

How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running, and jumping.

1995-10-18T00:00:00Z

6x03 Animals In The Water

6x03 Animals In The Water

  • 1995-10-18T00:00:00Z45m

"Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.

1965-10-25T00:00:00Z

6x04 Animal Adaptation (1)

6x04 Animal Adaptation (1)

  • 1965-10-25T00:00:00Z45m

A look at how animals have developed special means of coping with the environments — the long neck of the giraffe, the coat of the polar bear.

1965-11-01T01:00:00Z

6x05 Animal Adaptation (2)

6x05 Animal Adaptation (2)

  • 1965-11-01T01:00:00Z45m

A look at the process of natural selection by which animals have developed special means of coping with their environments: the long neck of the giraffe, the coat of the polar bear, the digging claws of the mole.

1965-11-08T01:00:00Z

6x06 Animals and Food

6x06 Animals and Food

  • 1965-11-08T01:00:00Z45m

How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.

1965-11-15T01:00:00Z

6x07 Animals as Engineers (1)

6x07 Animals as Engineers (1)

  • 1965-11-15T01:00:00Z45m

Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams, by breaking down forests.

1965-11-22T01:00:00Z

6x08 Animals as Engineers (2)

6x08 Animals as Engineers (2)

  • 1965-11-22T01:00:00Z45m

Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests, damming streams, and by breaking down forests.

1965-11-29T01:00:00Z

6x09 Animal Hands and Tools

6x09 Animal Hands and Tools

  • 1965-11-29T01:00:00Z45m

Man is known as the "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.

1965-12-06T01:00:00Z

6x10 Animal Vision and Smell

6x10 Animal Vision and Smell

  • 1965-12-06T01:00:00Z45m

Different combinations of the senses are dominant in the activities of different animals: vision and smell in insects, smell and hearing in most mammals, vision and touch in the higher primates, including man.

A look at the various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.

1965-12-20T01:00:00Z

6x12 Animal Social Behavior

6x12 Animal Social Behavior

  • 1965-12-20T01:00:00Z45m

1965-12-27T01:00:00Z

6x13 December 26, 1965

6x13 December 26, 1965

  • 1965-12-27T01:00:00Z45m

1966-01-03T01:00:00Z

6x14 Animal Learning

6x14 Animal Learning

  • 1966-01-03T01:00:00Z45m

How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?

1966-01-10T01:00:00Z

6x15 January 9, 1966

6x15 January 9, 1966

  • 1966-01-10T01:00:00Z45m

1966-01-17T01:00:00Z

6x16 January 16, 1966

6x16 January 16, 1966

  • 1966-01-17T01:00:00Z45m

1966-01-24T01:00:00Z

6x17 Man and Animals

6x17 Man and Animals

  • 1966-01-24T01:00:00Z45m

Man, the animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he, his anatomy, his reproduction, his behavior and his ecology. A summary of the entire series.

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